Sunday, December 20, 2015

Back in the nifty-fifties, a loaf of bread came in a wax wrapper instead of a plastic bag. On the end of the wrapper was a label that helped keep the wrapper sealed. Some clever bread companies printed up fun labels for kids to collect. Sports figures to Disney characters to popular TV western stars could be found on the end of a bread loaf. Some bread companies had promotions and offered albums to save your end-label collection inside.

Recently I found four Christmas themed end-labels for you to enjoy today.

Here's an example of how the end labels were used.

A small sample of different end labels. I found these images on eBay and if you want to see more just put "bread end-label" in your eBay search.

Tuesday, December 15, 2015

Earlier this year I was fortunate to find this neato cool piece of original advertising artwork. I have no clue what it was used for. My guess it was probably commissioned for a beer or soda company, maybe for a sign or a grocery store display. It's a great piece of art that was created by some one with a lot of talent. I wonder who illustrated it? Anyway, now this piece of art is ready to go as a Christmas decoration in our house.

Since time got away from me this year, the annual 12 days of Christmas will mostly be shared on my twitter page @NeatoCoolville. This year, I photoshopped Santa hats on characters from the movies. Yeah, kinda random, kinda stupid but hopefully kinda fun. Last night I shared everyone's favorite replicant hunter, Rick Deckard wearing a Santa hat. I won't bother everyone here on the blog with these and will only be sharing the images on my twitter feed.

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For your yuletide pleasure, here are the rest of the Santa hat wearing movie characters!

Saturday, December 12, 2015

Whoa! Looks like there's no slowing down Santa's reindeer because Christmas is coming on fast! Our annual 12 days of Christmas usually begins on the Dec. 14 but I don't think I'm going to make that deadline. I do have a few fun blog posts ready and a few I hope to find time to put together, but this year it might be more of an 11 or 10 or 9 days of Christmas here on the blog.

I did manage to cook up 12 silly photoshopped movie images that I'll be sharing on twitter starting late Monday. You can follow me @NeatoCoolville if you'd like. Here's a little piece from the first photo.